Companion: Sister Staker
Area: Vancouver North Stake, Walnut Grove Ward
HELLO FRIENDS AND FAMILY.
This week has been great! We did a lot! Probably the most exciting thing was that we got to go to a CHOIR CONCERT!?!!!! What??? Missionaries at a choir concert!?!!? So during our zone conference our mission president dropped a bomb on us saying we need to go to the youth and talk with them. Go to where they are. "If they're at football games, go to them and talk!" WHAT??? THIS IS UNHEARD OF. So the Walnut Grove Ward does volleyball every Tuesday night and they have a whole bunch of kids that go to it that aren't members and it’s a way for them to come to the church and learn more about it. Well, we've gotten to know them a bit and all of them are in choir. And they had their solo ensemble on Saturday. Michael and Cesar, two of the people we've been teaching are in it as well as like 6 other kids and some of the youth in our ward already. So we asked our zone leaders if we could go and they said to talk to the assistants. The assistants said they had to talk to president about it! TWO DAYS LATER the assistants got back to us and SAID WE COULD GO?!!! It was incredible! They were so amazing! And we got to know them a little more and they were so excited to see us there! They were so excited to meet with us again! It was crazy! It was so good that we could establish that relationship and find some other people who wanted to be taught.
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| from Hercules . . . sun dial peddler |
Another short story while we were there, a kid named Brandon was there at the concert with his mom, his sister was singing in the choir. He and his is mom come up to Sister Staker and I and say, "Hey sisters look at this!" And it was like that scene on Hercules when that guy is all "hey you wanna buy a sun dial" and opens his coat and there's tons of watches underneath, like a sketch drug deal or something, except Brandon didn't have watches underneath his coat, and you'll never guess what he did have..... A FREAKING LIZARD!!!!! LIZARD NUMBER 7I47TY758484 ON THE MISH. Sister Staker freaked out cause she hates reptiles but it was seriously so funny. I asked why Brandon brought the lizard and he said he didn't know he was actually staying for the choir concert!!!! So he had it for like 5 hours! It was so funny!!!
So I went on exchanges with the Sister Training Leaders this week. I was with Sister Twitchell and it was so much fun! She's awesome! It was fun to get to know another missionary and see how they work, to do something different. She gave me some really good advice that helped me learn to listen to spiritual promptings more. It was great and I love her.
We did a service project this week and we cleaned this woman's bathrooms, and it brought me back to the good old days of being a janitor at Green Acres elementary school and I never realized how much I missed cleaning. Hah lolz I'm the weirdest. Shout out to my GA squad. Sister Staker was laughing cause everything we cleaned I was like "this is my place in life, this is all I know, once a janitor always a janitor!" It was great. Never thought cleaning would be a tender mercy. Lolz.
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| Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego Fiery Furnace |
One of the cool things that I studied this week was Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in Daniel chapter 3. When King Nebuchadnezzar makes a statue of himself and wants everyone to worship him. The three of them refuse and are told they will be put in a burning fire. The king asks if they think their God will save them. They say something along the lines of "yes, we believe our God has the power to save us, but we know that if he doesn't it's because he has a reason for it. Whether he keeps us alive or not, we have faith in our God and will not worship anything else." In the end, the three of them are thrown into the fire, and the servants who throw them in the fire are actually killed because of how hot the fire is, but the king sees four figures. The three of them, and the Lord standing with them. The Lord will stand with us through hard times and I admire their faith in Him, knowing he had a plan for them and that even if they weren't kept alive, that God was doing what he was doing for a reason, and it reminded me of Alma 24, when the people know that the Lamanites are coming to war with them, but they don't want to fight because they don't want to sin against God, they bury their weapons. When the Lamanites come, they fall to the earth on their faces and most are killed. But because of their righteousness and their willingness to act on their faith in the Lord, more people from the Lamanites are converted unto the Lord, than righteous people killed. So God didn't save them from their death, but he had a better plan for them. And they had enough faith to trust in Him. So that's something I'm working on, believing in and trusting in God, that he knows what's right. I can pray to him at any time to help me with anything, and sometimes he'll help me, and sometimes I'll crash and burn where I wanted it to be so good, but something better will come along the line. And that better something could either be for me or someone else, that I might not even know about. I want to be able to trust in God whole heartedly. Even if things don't turn out the way I want them to. We need to have faith that what he's doing is better for us, or for someone else. GOD IS SO REAL!! The church is so REAL! The gospel is REAL! Life is good elder! I love love love the gospel!!!!!
Sorrz I don't have many pictures.
Sister Hansen
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